With their windswept ridges and wind-rent skies, prairies and plains have often been denigrated as nothing but nothing—empty, meaningless, valueless space. Mountains and forests, oceans and deserts have been praised and ...

Buildings account for a large part of total U.S. energy consumption and generate far more
greenhouse gas emissions than any other sector of the economy. The purpose of this thesis is to
demonstrate how buildings can be ...

This thesis was undertaken to investigate and seek possible architectural solutions to two issues. Firstly, fragmentation of the American family structure into a variety of new household types presents new design challenges ...

Networks of low-power, in-suit, wired and wireless health sensors offer the potential to
track and predict the health of astronauts engaged in extra-vehicular and in-station
activities in zero- or reduced- gravity ...